Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 2 | The Bishop of Bradford , Coggan , was an evangelical with a quality then rare among evangelical leaders , namely learning , and was a likeable person who made himself respected by good sense at bishops ' meetings . |
| 3 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 4 | Each writer sought to give an overall biblical interpretation of his subject , but to do so in such a way as to be of practical value to modern Christians who found themselves perplexed by controversy on the subject . |
| 5 | Last November , the Two Castles Housing Association and Darlington Council set up a mortgage rescue scheme for people who found themselves threatened with repossession after falling into arrears . |
| 6 | Poorly trained managers who found themselves faced with new , rapidly changing technologies developed technophobia out of fear of things they did not understand . |
| 7 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 8 | His story was not unusual among the xiafang ( students sent to the countryside ) , who found themselves competing with teenagers for college places . |
| 9 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 10 | One 200-strong theatre audience who found themselves trapped in the chaos on Tuesday were given an impromptu hour-long concert by Tom Jones . |
| 11 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 12 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 13 | The principle of effective judicial protection is expressed by a provision on the three Sex Equality Directives ( 75/117 on equal pay , 176/207 on equal treatment in employment and 79/7 on equal treatment in social security ) which requires Member States to introduce into their internal legal order such measures as are needed to enable all persons who consider themselves wronged by discrimination ‘ to pursue their claims by judicial process ’ . |
| 14 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 15 | He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people , who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue . |
| 16 | In particular , there is a rapidly growing group of the ‘ young old ’ , especially those with occupational pensions , who find themselves freed in retirement to develop interests and fulfilling activities unthought of in earlier years . |
| 17 | Guidance on the use of overtime is helpful to managers who find themselves faced with an immediate staffing problem . |
| 18 | In its revised form it has precisely the same aim : to provide a bridge between those who find themselves divided by the renewal movement . |
| 19 | Marrying again and starting a family had found her coping with a highly-gifted child , and this had led to her founding the National Association for Parents of Gifted Children in order to help families who find themselves thrown by their brilliant off-spring and to encourage local authorities to make provision for them . |
| 20 | A taut thriller , in the Hollywood mould that 's currently in vogue , with Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe as a happy , wealthy couple who find themselves held at knife-point in their designer home . |
| 21 | Tracy is a cab driver who finds himself struggling against the power of the city 's corrupt taxi bosses . |
| 22 | Cool World also stars the ever-sulky , strongly quiffed Brad Pitt as Detective Frank Harris , who finds himself entering into the bizarre , mesmeric universe created by Deebs as a solace from his own troubled existence . |
| 23 | Paula plays Diane , the oldest entrant , who finds herself competing against her daughter . |
| 24 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 25 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 26 | The challenge to the accepted claims of the major national liberation movements came not only from the unpropertied , but also from lesser movements ; the Germans , the Poles , the Hungarians , the Italians found their claims undermined by those who felt themselves oppressed by these dominant peoples . |
| 27 | One interesting aspect was that during the war the lines of debate were largely settled by civil servants ; the effective opposition was not a political party , but the Treasury and other departments who saw themselves threatened by a new , upstart Ministry of Town and Country Planning . |
| 28 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 29 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 30 | the pair were spending a season in New Zealand at the invitation of McIntosh 's elder brother , Shane , who had himself played for Pontypridd and has recently returned to Britain to play for West of Scotland . |